I'M APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dr Glas****'s office submitted my paperwork Tuesday and BCBS approved me THURSDAY!! WOO HOO!! I'm scheduled for all the preops already and it looks like if all those come back I'll be having surgery late July.  (We're tentatively looking at July 26th!) I'm so excited but so scared at the same time! In other news, the DH and I joined a fitness club here in town that has a lap pool.  It has almost daily pool exercise classes that go for an hour and work perfectly with my work schedule that I'm going to do.  I am so much more excited about working out when I do the class thing vs the on my own thing. 

Congrats on getting approved!!! I remember those days. Good Luck to you on your new journey. Stephanie

Congratulations!!    I know how exciting it is to finally be approved!!  My lap band is scheduled for July 16th - so we won't be too far off from each other.   I'm excited, but I think the closer it gets, the more nervous AND excited I will become because this is a dream come true for me.  I can't wait to be a "loser" like everyone else here....lol Keep us updated!  I'm interested in hearing how things progress for you. JoDee

Congratulations!!!!  Wow insurance approval was fast.  I just had my last visit for supervised diet yesterday and my pcp has to fax to Dr. Glass**** and then they will be submitting to BCBS for me also.  Hope mine goes as fast as yours.  I am finished with all pre op testing.  My pcp scheduled them and I have been doing those over the last couple of months while doing the supervised diet so once I am approved it will be total blood work up right before surgery.  Mary at the office told me she thinks by the middle or end of July also.   Good luck and again congratulations.  You must be soooo excited!!! I can not wait to join you.

Luckily I didn't have to do a supervised diet.. I think because I'm above a 50 BMI plus I can so that I have been trying.  Which BCBS do you have? I have Blue Cross Blue Shield of Iowa Alliance Select.

I also have BCBS of Iowa Alliance Select.  Good for you getting it without the supervised!!! I was told by 3 people at the Insurance and Dr. Glass****s office there was no way around it.  2 BCBS reps  told me that I had to have a medically supervised diet within 2 years of applying.  I have been on phen fen in the past and done 2 supervised diets but they didn't count because it was over 2 years ago.  Oh well. The supervised diet is completed.  I just hope I am approved the first try.  Really want to have this done in July!!! Are you having lap band or RouxenY?  Just wondering because I was also told BCBS of Iowa wouldn't pay lap band for patients with BMI of 50 or higher.  I think it should be our choice what we have not the insurance. Anyhoo, I think it is great that you are getting so close.  I am sooooo excited for you!!! Good luck to you and keep me posted.  A 

That's weird that yours requires it and mine didn't.  I want the RNY but they applied for approval for both.  I was only approved for the RNY ... I think because of the BMI being higher than 50 is the reason. I'm tentatively set to go for July 26th assuming my labs come back ok.  It 's going to be awhile before I can get into the pulmonologist and endoscope office.  If I didn't have to wait for those appts I'd be much sooner!!

I have all pre op testing finished. Just need to visit a pulmonologist and have blood work done after approval.  my doc is ordering the pulmonologist appointment though so that I will have that done when/if we get the approval.  Mary at Dr. Glass****s office told me that if that is done then the only waiting I would have to do would be for the 2 weeks liquid.  I hope once they submit we will get a decision back right away.  I really want to have this done in July before my kids go back to school. My daughter is almost 16 and my son is 14.  They lost their dad 4 years ago at the age of 35 due to complications with diabetis so it is really important to them to be with me to 'make sure I am ok.'  They are very mothering children so it is really important for me to try to do this when they will be around for their piece of mind.   Anyway, congrats on your surgery date.  Wish I wouldn't have had to do supervised diet.  I could have had this done but on the other hand that is ok because now it is summer and the kids are home so no missing school. Good luck and maybe I will see you at the hospital.

Congratulations!!  I was approved friday as well.  Sounds like there is going to be a few of us close.  That will be a nice support system.  I can't wait.

Congratulations!! Mine is on July 18th! Lap band.